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Illustrated cover with a yellow background featuring large white titles. A pretty white woman with dark hair wearing a red bikini and a sunhat reads a book with a golden retriever dog nearby on top of "Happy" and a handsome white guy in blue swim shorts relaxes with a cocktail on "ending". There's a sandcastle at the bottom of the titles.
May 7, 2026

REVIEW: Happy Ending by Chloe Liese

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBooks / Contemporary / cooking / divorce / Edelweiss / Pittsburgh2 Comments

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  Dear Chloe Liese, I generally enjoy Chloe Liese books anyway but the premise of Happy Ending especially caught my attention: Two people discover their ex-spouses are dating and, still hurting from their very recent divorces, pretend they are old friends/lovers who have reconnected and are together as well. Hijinks ... more >

January 15, 2025

REVIEW: Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Confino

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / divorce / First-Person / Historical / Maryland / politics / strong women / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Confino

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-lifting novel by the bestselling author of Don’t Forget to Write. It’s a doozy of a bad day for Beverly Diamond when she catches her husband, Larry, in a compromising position with ... more >

November 30, 2023

REVIEW: Yet Love Remains by Mary Burchell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / angsty / co-respondent / divorce / England / female friendship / Historical / second chance at love8 Comments

To fall for Charles is the last thing Helen expected … but will her lies cost her the love of her life? England, 1970s When Helen Debenham agrees to help her friend Sylvia out of her unhappy marriage to the famous playwright Charles Lane, the last thing she expects is ... more >

October 22, 2021

REVIEW: All in Good Time by M.K. Chester

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / divorce / North-Carolina / Post WWII / single father / Small Town Romance / teacher / teacher heroineComments Off on REVIEW: All in Good Time by M.K. Chester

She wants to fade away. He can’t possibly let her. Elizabeth arrives in small, Southern Bryeton to teach first grade in 1948, hiding a painful secret that haunts her. She doesn’t count on falling for Jake, a WWII veteran struggling to raise his young son after his wife abandons them ... more >

May 20, 2021

REVIEW: That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsBollywood / divorce / family relationships / First-Person / Indian American / Magical Realism / middle grade / POC / POC author / self discoveryComments Off on REVIEW: That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

Bollywood takes over in this contemporary, magical middle grade novel about an Indian American girl whose world turns upside down when she involuntarily starts bursting into glamorous song-and-dance routines during everyday life. You know how in Bollywood when people are in love, they sing and dance from the mountaintops? Eleven-year-old ... more >

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December 2, 2015

Reading and Watching List by Jayne

JayneB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / actors / codes / dance / divorce / England / historical paranormal / lawyer / law related / medieval / non-fiction / Paris / pilot / police / Reading lists / science / War / Military / World War II22 Comments

Fitzempress’ Law by Diana Norman Three modern young people commit a crime against an old woman who sends them back through time to the time of King Henry II (known as Fitzempress because he was the son of Empress Matilda) where they must solve serious personal problems by making use ... more >

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